B&R: What did you expect?

[DocLathropBrown]

I just got to wondering (since I can't remember that far back), what did everyone think of Batman and Robin before you actually saw it? I mean, with the trailers and the photos and the new reports and the hype.... what was everyone expecting? Was there any promotion that made you think :"Cool!" Did Arnold look great to you?

etc... etc... So, cough it up. What was B&R to you before it all came crashing down?

 

[The Joker]

It looked terrible.

The set pics, Bane, Freeze etc. It all looked so camp and awful. Poison Ivy was the only one who looked good.

 

[The Kid]

I thought it'd be fun, not much more than that. Being a watcher of adam west's batman and superfriends really prepares you to handle a movie as ridiculous as this...

The movie is underrated in the sense that there is a decent little story being told in it. That story about batman coming to terms with his role as a father figure is what I enjoyed more than anything else about it. People focus on the negative aspects of the film because they want to try really really hard to make every other batfilm look like a complete failure next to the brilliance of ninja quest aka: batman begins. but the movie's not completely bad. Just mostly bad because it doesn't hold back from going over the top at every moment...

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

I remember watching the trailer premier on Entertainment Tonight, I even recorded it. After it was over I just kinda sat there staring at the TV for a minute going, okay, this is different. I kne from there that this was going to be a departure from what Burton did and even what Forever was. However, with all the hype that surrounded the movie and with the marketing, I still had a bit of excitement for it. Until opening day.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I just got to wondering (since I can't remember that far back), what did everyone think of Batman and Robin before you actually saw it? I mean, with the trailers and the photos and the new reports and the hype.... what was everyone expecting? Was there any promotion that made you think :"Cool!" Did Arnold look great to you?

etc... etc... So, cough it up. What was B&R to you before it all came crashing down?

I was just expecting Batman Forever 2, if you know what I mean. When George Clooney was announced, I was expecting a more rugged, masculine Batman than Val Kilmer. Silly me.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I thought it'd be fun, not much more than that. Being a watcher of adam west's batman and superfriends really prepares you to handle a movie as ridiculous as this...

The movie is underrated in the sense that there is a decent little story being told in it. That story about batman coming to terms with his role as a father figure is what I enjoyed more than anything else about it. People focus on the negative aspects of the film because they want to try really really hard to make every other batfilm look like a complete failure next to the brilliance of ninja quest aka: batman begins. but the movie's not completely bad. Just mostly bad because it doesn't hold back from going over the top at every moment...

LOL, ninja quest.

To be fair, people were focusing on the negative aspects of B&R long before Batman Begins came out.

 

[Cain]

They tricked me with the trailer. They put Elfman's music in it. I just thought it would be like Forever campy at parts but still kind of dark. I was not prepared for the mess that I saw opening weekend. I had just finished 9th grade the day it opened and that was the first thing I did afterwards. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I appreciate it for what it is now especially since we got a reboot but wow man that feeling in my stomach during the first encounter with Mr. Freeze. It was like the Roger Corman version of the bank scene from Forever.

 

[The Kid]

LOL, ninja quest.

To be fair, people were focusing on the negative aspects of B&R long before Batman Begins came out.

Oh no one can deny that. I just sense it so much more strongly now. You remember when people thought batman forever was ok instead of an abomination?

 

[Joker]

I've always though Forever was an abomination, even worse than Batman & Robin...see, B&R just came out going "hey, look at me, I'm a big piece of s**t!" and that was that...Batman Forever on the other hand pretty much came out going "Hey, I might be really good! Ha ha, just kidding, look at gay Riddler and Two-Face and Batman getting over his parents deaths!"

 

[Rockbottom]

Oh no one can deny that. I just sense it so much more strongly now. You remember when people thought batman forever was ok instead of an abomination?

I think its a great movie...

 

[The Kid]

God i love this movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D13gpfje4FE

 

[The Kid]

I think its a great movie...

Great Iron Man movie

 

[mcilroga]

Well I didn't actually see it until after everyone said it sucked, so I wasn't expecting much at all actually... and that's exactly what I got.

 

[Catman]

I was just expecting Batman Forever 2, if you know what I mean.

Same here, Kev. I remember watching the trailers and TV spot and thinking, "wow! This looks just like Forever." That kinda disappointed me since the first three Batman movies were so different from each other. Then, I thought, "well I did like Forever so I may enjoy this fourth installment as well." Finally, the movie came out and I walked out of the theater thinking, "I just saw the worst movie ever made."

 

[Victarion]

I was too young to really care...I just thought Freeze looked cool...Bane's transformation scene scared the **** out of me...I had to leave the theater...

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

I wasn't expecting much since only months before Wizard mentioned the movie would be lighter and even rumored that either Jeff Goldblum or Howard Stern were in the running for Scarecrow in Batman 5.

I was excited mostly because of Arnold's star power.

 

[Catman]

Jeff Goldblum running for Scarecrow in Batman 5.

That would have been cool.

 

[Nepenthes]

I was at the age where I didn't really care and everything about it looked lame anyway. If it was a Burton style movie I would have cared, but it wasn't. I remember a Wizard article predicting doom long before the movie came out, it had huge pic of Clooney in the cowl with a really dumb grin against a pink background and from there I knew it was even more rubbish than Forever. I was 11 or 12 when Forever came out and could clearly see that the movies weren't cool anymore.

When I eventually went to B&R we didn't even see the whole movie. We were bored and talking the whole time so we went outside to smoke joints thinking it would make the movie better. We never came back, it was more fun loitering in the car park. The highlight of the night was when the cinema attendant gave us a stuffed garbage bag, yes a GARBAGE BAG of popcorn that she was about to throw out.

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

I remember a Wizard article predicting doom long before the movie came out, it had huge pic of Clooney in the cowl with a really dumb grin against a pink background

Heres also a pic of that Stern article:

 

[Catman]

Heres also a pic of that Stern article:

hahaha! awesome!

 

[Mr. Socko]

After Schumacher made BF and made The Riddler gay by wearing a tiara, tight glittery spandex, and an orange honey-do hairstyle, I thought B&R would probably come out being a gay porn film.


Nah, just kidding. I was a kid when B&R came out, and 10 years ago, I loved it. I loved the opening museum scene, the set was so huge, it was amazing, I was blown away. And having Batman crash down from the wall. I went nuts over it. And even to this day, I can still enjoy B&R. You see, because secretly, I love Schumacher's work on Batman and think the neon city is very cool. It's just that my Big Bad Harv side loves to bash it, too.

 

[Nepenthes]

ha ha yeah that's the one! I remember sitting on a kerb outside a comic shop with a roll of mentos and a slushy and feeling lame from that picture and too much sugar. it was the same colour as my mentos


why the hell is it taped to the front of your folder?

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

Thats one of my scrap books where I have all the B&R era articles and such. I had to put something big enough on there to warn me to not open it.

 

[DX]

I was a little'un when I first saw B&R and back then I loved it, now when I watch it again I see it's flaws and realise how bad it really is.

 

[Rockbottom]

Well i was at a age were i didnt really care as long it was Batman, i know i didnt like it as much as Forever, but i did like the "im Batman" bit at the start. Thing i remember most about that was collecting these pogs to put in a big shield from packs of Frosties LOL